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Nearly all the freshmen contacted said they had attended at least one of the 40-odd House functions--which included champagne brunches, ice cream bashes, and ice skating trips--aimed at showcasing the best of the Houses. And all said they had eaten meals in at least one, and usually many, of the Houses...
...course, there is pathos in Stubbs' hunting scenes. His portrait of the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper about to cut a doe's throat in a darkening wood is a gravely haunting mixture of the archaic and the matter-of-fact. Venison, to be eaten, must be killed, but the thickening shadows seem to enfold a more sacrificial rite than the mere stocking of a larder. This, like all Stubbs' paintings, must also be seen as a manifesto of the supreme ideology of late 18th century England: the celebration and defense of property. If the wrong...
...consumer added boiling water. As it happened, this was scarcely more instant than Campbell's regular soup, to which a consumer simply adds water or milk and then boils. General Foods stirred a short-lived sensation with Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy that crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed the granules too fast would get a stomachful of carbonation. But the candy was nothing that youngsters could sink their teeth into, and the fad eventually lost its fizz...
IVORY TOWER intellectuals have always taken flak for being out of touch with reality, and to a great extent, the criticism holds true. Anyone who's ever eaten in a Harvard dining hall, sipped tea with Derek Bok or sat in on a Government tutorial meeting knows the thrill of formulating a blueprint for a better world. Yet once the security of the Ivy League vanishes, principles often take a back seat to practicality. Only when confronted with real-world choices do an individual's true values emerge...
...could squish all of the stuff in the stratosphere, it would amount to a strip of gas about an eighth of an inch thick. The danger is that various man-made gasses may be seeping up into the stratosphere and destroying this delicate balance, causing ozone to be eaten up faster than it is being made...